Baluarte de Santo Domingo
Triangular stone bastion where Cartagena's colonial sea walls begin, cannons still lined along its parapet.
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This guide to Baluarte de Santo Domingo in Cartagena opens with the day in September 2024 that a famous sunset bar's speakers went silent after a decade-long lawsuit over a public monument leased to one nightclub alone. It then reaches back to 1586, when the English privateer Francis Drake sailed through this unguarded stretch of coast and held the city for ransom, prompting Spain to send engineers Battista Antonelli and Cristobal de Roda to fortify the spot around 1602. This triangular bastion became the point from which all of Cartagena's walls grew outward, its cannons and watchtower built to scan the horizon for approaching ships.
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